Telesfor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Telesfor; Telesphore
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/telesfoɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Telesfor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 235K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
163 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Telesfor; Telesphore
Sources 1
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Telesfor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 163 | 1 in 235K | 180 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | 3 | Telesfor | 15 |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | Telesfor | 25 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Telesfor | 11 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Telesfor | 19 |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | Telesfor | 2 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Telesfor | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | Telesfor | 2 |
163 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kazimierz Kostaneckib. 1863PLnot in their usual namePolish physician and anatomist
- Telesfor Banaszkiewiczb. 1908PLPolish footballer
- Henryk Musiałowiczb. 1914PLnot in their usual namePolish painter (1914-2015)
- Telesfor Kuczkob. 1920PLPolish engineer
- Telesfor Piecuchb. 1928PLPolish surgeon
- Telesfor Poźniakb. 1932PLPolish slavist
- Telesfor Halmob. 1937SKSlovak association football player and coach
- Henryk Rogackib. 1942PLnot in their usual namePolish geographer (1942-2010)
- Telesfor HadrysiakPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 180 | #1,308 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 163 | #1,492 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1934 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1942 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2024 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Telesfor mean, and where does it come from?
- Telesfor; Telesphore Recorded by Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24).
- How do you pronounce Telesfor?
- A machine transcription gives /telesfoɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Telesfor a male or female name?
- Telesfor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Telesfor have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 163 people named Telesfor, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Telesfor most common?
- Telesfor is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 235 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Telesfor?
- In Poland, the national register counted 163 people named Telesfor in 2026, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Telesfor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/telesforThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Telesfor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.